Long Time...(and even more excitement/drama) between posts :)

July 29, is a long time ago since I posted last. To be honest it seems like years. I honestly don't believe it's almost christmas..and I am still numb to the fact that thanksgiving just passed.

After two years of a tough and faithfull fight with cancer. My mother went to join her grandson in heaven. She passed away on October 26. To Gods glory she knew her body was giving out and decided to let God do with her what he willed. After a month in the ICU at Fresno Community Hospital she decided that she wanted to be home when God called her to her true home. So she was discharged to home care and spent her last for days her at the house.

In true "Only God Can" fashion...on the day of my moms memorial service....my sister in law went in to emergency surgery and popped out my beautiful niece Eden Leilani Torres. Being only 28 weeks...and weighing only 1lb and 10 oz did not keep Eden from shocking the doctors by crying quite loudly as she came out. As the family the family switches from spending time in one ICU to the NeoNatale ICU, we are truly blessed by the testimony of God given life that Eden is.

Oh yeah did I mention my sister got married as well?? Well yeah she did.

It's like Abe Lincoln said. "It's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years!"

As for me I will try not to waite years to post again :)

Time to Raise Support...

Six Months ago I would not have imagined that as August came around I would be in CA and not Odessa, Ukraine. Well since I returned home my plans of raising support and leaving in a couple months..were quickly put on hold. Two weeks after arriving in Ca My mom was admitted to the hospital because she was unable to eat for several weeks and ultimately had to have a drainage tube placed in her stomach due to a tumor that had caused a blockage in her small intestine. I am blessed to have been allowed to stay home and play nurse for my mother as well as help with my younger siblings while my dad took care of my mother. This however did not allow much time infact little to none at all for support raising. However God knows best and again I was blessed to spend time with one of my mentors and adopted granfather before he was called home to heaven.


Now the time has come. My committment to serve in Ukraine at least for a time has not be forgotten. So now I actually begin support raising as I look to leave for Odessa in December of this year. Lord willing my financial goal is around 17oo dollars a month. "God's will done god's way. Will not lack Gods resources." (Forgot who said it). The sure thing is that this saying is true. The great thing is that "God resources" are not limited to finances. I know that as I head towards ukraine God will sustaine me financially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Home

So it's been a while since I posted anything. I must say it is not without reason. I returned to California In mid December. I enjoyed hanging out for a few days in Northern California with a couple of classmates from Missionary training. I returned home happy to see family and friends and ready to enjoy the holidays and begin raising support.

Things don't always work out as planned but thankfully the God is still in control. My mothers battle with stomach cancer came back four round two over the holidays. She ended up in the hospital over the Christmas holiday with a blockage in her stomach. Though not an ideal setting for Christmas day, I can't help but be gratefull for the purity of the reason for Christmas. Christmas wether the world admits it or not is about the birth of the saviour Jesus Christ. Being in hospital on Christmas day reminds me not only how Truly Blessed I am by to be able to spend time with my family, But also the realization and reminder of how mortal we are and how much we need that saviour.

Knowing a realizing this in the simplicity of Christmas at the hospital brings me to this conlcusion. How Great and awesome it is that this saviour I am in such great need of is using me for his glory. Wether right her or overseas the opportunity to serve and bring glory to his name is something I can only praise him for. So as I continue to fund raise and help out at home I press on knowing his plan is not my own. and being ever so thankfull for that.